RMS Meetings: Supporting Development and Research


With still plenty of events for microscopists before the year end, The Royal Microscopical Society is pleased to announce the return of its Beginners Competition for early career stage researchers and the opening of its applications list for Summer School placements. For details and registration please visit www.rms.org.uk


RMS Beginners’ Competition


This award is designed to offer early career researchers an exciting opportunity to present their work before an audience at a scientifi c meeting. It is specifi cally aimed at students, interns, apprentices and faculty staff who may have given no more than two talks outside their home institution. Entrants will be asked to give a short oral presentation (10 minutes) at the 2017 Society of Electron Microscope Technology (SEMT) Meeting on 6 December at the Natural History Museum in London.


The competition winner will be announced at the meeting and will receive a cash prize. Previous winning presentations have ranged from ‘Multiple Length-Scale Imaging of Biomimetric Hierarchical Mineralized Materials’ to ‘Small gold nanoparticles: potential carriers of therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier’.


To apply to give a short oral presentation, please send a brief abstract to Dr Alex Ball, Secretary of the SEMT a.ball@nhm.com


RMS Summer Studentships


The Society is also now accepting applications for the RMS Summer Studentships developed for undergraduate students, typically moving into their third or fourth year, to complete a microscopy project during their summer break, providing them with invaluable experience to add to their CV. Previous projects have ranged from developing SEM data capture methodologies, software modelling and 3D printing techniques at the Natural History Museum to using a novel atomic force microscopy measurement tool to investigate the effect of curvature for a promising tool in nanomedicine. Applications, which will close in February 2018, can be submitted online (see under summer studentships).


2017 RMS Scientifi c Imaging Competition Winners


Following on from the gallery of Ist prize winners of this year’s RMS Scientifi c Imaging Competition presented in our last issue (ILM Aug/Sept 2017 Vol 42 Issue), the second place winners are shown below. With over 230 submissions, the competition proved to be both the largest to date and hardest to judge. The fi nal winners were selected from 50 shortlisted images and videos that were on display at mmc2017. Short Video 2nd prize winner was Dr Neil M. Kad, University of Kent: Bending DNA Tightropes (see ILM Vol 42 Issue 6).


Electron Microscopy - Life Sciences 2nd Prize


Meet the Locals


This Atomic Force Microscopy image show E. coli cells under a blanket made of Graphene Oxide sheets. This is one of the mechanisms of Graphene Oxide antibacterial activity.


Valentina Palmieri, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore


False coloured SEM image that resembles a colony of strange creatures milling about on a rock face. What the image actually shows is a close up of a ragworm’s head. The ragworm is a type of marine worm.


Anne Weston, The Francis Crick Institute


Inside the brain ventricles, the choroid plexus (right corner) represents the barrier between the body immune system (Macrophages, green round cells) and the brain-specifi c counterpart (Microglia, green ramifi ed cells in left corner). Immunofl uorescent image acquired via Leica laser scanning confocal microscope. Green:Iba1 (Immune cells) Red:Laminin (blood vessels) Blue:DAPI (cell nuclei). Image size: 0.5 x 0.5 mm.


Roberto Fiorelli, Barrow Brain Tumor Research Center, Phoenix AZ (USA)


View the images online at: www.rms.org.uk/imaging-competition


The 1st place winners’ images appeared in the previous issue of International Labmate.


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This biomimetic form is a self-assembled inorganic structure of barium carbonate that mimics life in fossil form. And at the same time reminds us an old micrometer-scale microphone. The image was acquired with a scanning electron microscope at 1kV in deceleration mode.


Lionel Cervera Gontard, University of Cádiz, Spain Light Microscopy - Life Sciences


2nd Prize Border Patrol


Differential interference contrast microscopy technique using a Nikon Eclipse LV100 microscope. Magnifi cation 20x Field of view 0.72mm


Jonathan Muyal, Gemological Institute of America


Scanning Probe Microscopy 2nd Prize


Entraped bacteria


Electron Microscopy - Physical Sciences


2nd Prize Micronphone


Light Microscopy - Physical Sciences 2nd Prize


Natural growth marks on beryl


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